Xu Yang
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Beauty Spot 23122019, 2021
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Can't Resist 28092021, 2021
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Self Portrait as Flower 29062018 (After Kahlo) — Ed. 01/10, 2021
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The Birth of Self Discovery 04112021 (After Botticelli), 2021
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The Day Runs in a Gilded Frame 18032021, 2021
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Touch 01102021, 2021
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Touch 03102021, 2021
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Touch 04102021, 2021
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Touch 23102021, 2021
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Touch 30092021, 2021
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Victoria 15102021, 2021
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Victoria 19102021, 2021
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Victoria 24102021, 2021
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While The World Burns Outside 04082021,, 2021
Xu Yang is a London based artist born in Shandong, China. She completed her undergraduate at Wimbledon College of Arts and her MA in painting at Royal College of Art. She explores the construction of identity through a contemporary female gaze.
Xu Yang is a London based artist born in Shandong, China. She completed her undergraduate at Wimbledon College of Arts and her MA in painting at Royal College of Art. She explores the construction of identity through a contemporary female gaze. Drawing on art history, fashion, fairy tale and performance, Xu pushes beyond the canvas and behind the mask to question reality. Identity, perception and imagination are all key to understanding her universe.
Xu was the winner of Barbican Arts Group Trust ArtWorks Open 2019 followed by a solo exhibition “100 Carat Diamond”, BAGT ArtWorks Project Space (2020). Xu has been nominated for the Contemporary Young Artist (2020), and has curated a showcase of RCA fine art Graduates for Kovet.art gallery (2021).
Recent group exhibitions include Photo London with Kovet.art (2021),“Bums”, Dio Horia curated by Skip gallery (2021), “Redirecting”, Tree Museum China (2021), “Softer Softest”, Andrea Festa Gallery (2021) “London Grads Now.” (The RCA selection), Saatchi Gallery (2020), Residency Project: “On the Mountain We Stay Residency End”, NoSpace Organisation (2019).
Xu was featured in Elephant Magazine: “These Are the Artists You Need to Know Right Now” (2020), The Guardian “The cheek of it: artists celebrate the bottom – in pictures” (2021), Vogue Singapore, The Sunday Times, ArtConnect, FAD Magazine, Exibart, Art She Says and other publications.
Xu has contributed to collaborative art projects ‘Imaging Technologies’ With Painting Research at Wimbledon College of Arts at Tate Modern (2017) and ‘Here she Comes’ with Monster Chetwynd at Royal Festival Hall (2016). Her works have been exhibited in London, Shanghai, Venice, Athens and across the USA. @_xu.yang_
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FAD: Top 5 Exhibitions to View in London
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Essay - John Slyce on Xu Yang, for TOMORROW WILL BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY OF YOUR LIFE
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FAD Magazine: An Interview with Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang
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LONDON X LONDON: THINGS TO DO
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ART PLUGGED
Art Plugged, November 1, 2021
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Meet the Artists: Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang
Afternoon of discussion and performance by Xu Yang 27 Nov 2021Meet the artists on Saturday 27th November at STUDIO WEST. STUDIO WEST presents an opportunity to meet Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang, whose exciting work...Read more -
In Conversation with Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang
18 Nov 2021Please join us for a Q and A with the artists and a performance from Xu Yang to celebrate ‘Tomorrow Will Be the Most Beautiful Day of Your Life’. Studio West is proud to present its inaugural exhibition, Tomorrow will be the Most Beautiful Day of your Life, a show of works by Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang. Capturing both artists at pivotal moments in their career, Tomorrow Will Be The Most Beautiful Day Of Your Life is the artist couple’s first duo show together. Despite their markedly different practices, the exhibition highlights the ways in which Cantons and Xu rely on each other for inspiration, support and collaboration. The title of the exhibition sets the tone for the show. Hope, Love, Fear, Escapism, Joy, and Freedom are just a few of the themes that weave through the artists’ brushstrokes. Large, empowering works by Cantons greet you as you enter the gallery space, enveloping you in familiar images of blossoming roses – a favourite of her mother. These are juxtaposed to ethereal, powerful and lavish works by Xu; pink wigs, unicorns and mirrors float around her canvases, drawing on the performativity of identity, and the way we understand gender. Many of the works in the exhibition offer personal reflections of the artists’ identity, and explorations of their own sense of ‘self’.Read more